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have lost somebody close to us and you never get over that loss. and when we're looking down at the ground, he said when that moment happens, did i say that already? soon i'll be in the ground and he chuckled and he said when that moment happens and you come to see me the ground you'll be very sad but i want you to do one thing, listen to the wind. and i got back in october of 2001ened i was in pakistan around that very hard period called 911. after that the united states state department and embassy wanted to evacuate all united states citizens out of pakistan saying it's dangerous here but i had a lot of work to get done so. i called my wife and asked her what should i do and she said stay there with the people you love. finish up your work because you need to be over there right now. and when i was in pakistan after 911, everywhere i went i was touched by outpouring of empathy and hospitality. i remember a poor elderly widow that brought me five precious eggs and pushed them in my palm and said bring these back to the widows in new york sufferin
have lost somebody close to us and you never get over that loss. and when we're looking down at the ground, he said when that moment happens, did i say that already? soon i'll be in the ground and he chuckled and he said when that moment happens and you come to see me the ground you'll be very sad but i want you to do one thing, listen to the wind. and i got back in october of 2001ened i was in pakistan around that very hard period called 911. after that the united states state department and...
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he was reaching as far as he thought he had to protect us -- in order to protect us. i happen to think the page. act was very important. he did use tools -- i happen to think the patriot act was very important. notdid use tool mons envisioned earlier. we are a digital society. almost all of our laws are related to analog or written conversations. 1's that did not even a originate in the united states. these were tricky laws. he did the right thing in saying he wanted to use every law available to protect us. >> i am sometimes credited with being one of the authors of the patriot act. if you read the act, it is remarkably non-controversial. most of it is an attempt to facilitate information sharing between different parts of the government so we do not have one hand not knowing what the other does. we can do things in the digital age we could not do in the analog age. if we can do something to catch a drug dealer, we should be able to do at least that much to catch a terrorist. the critical thing is that congress passed it overwhelmingly. after a considerable amount of
he was reaching as far as he thought he had to protect us -- in order to protect us. i happen to think the page. act was very important. he did use tools -- i happen to think the patriot act was very important. notdid use tool mons envisioned earlier. we are a digital society. almost all of our laws are related to analog or written conversations. 1's that did not even a originate in the united states. these were tricky laws. he did the right thing in saying he wanted to use every law available...
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next we have a number of items that would require us to go into closed session. before we do that i would like to provide an opportunity to members of the public to speak on any of the items that are listed for the closed session and that would be items 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 and 14. i have to you speaker cards. i have several speaker cards of individuals here to speak on item 8. if i may, let me read the names. if there is any other member of the public who would like to speak on any of these items, please come forward. steven lead, peter, sam gold, sunny francis, ken lead, sorry if i mispronounce the name, steve, general -- jen, nick, howard, ken, joshua, ray, and then any other member of the public who would like to speak simply come forward. if you can please come up. >> hello. my name is john rhodes, and i have run an overnight poetry show on public access tv for almost three years now and through public access i have been able to syndicate my tv show on about 20 different channels across the u.s.. it shows regularly in cambridge, and philadelphia, and i h
next we have a number of items that would require us to go into closed session. before we do that i would like to provide an opportunity to members of the public to speak on any of the items that are listed for the closed session and that would be items 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 and 14. i have to you speaker cards. i have several speaker cards of individuals here to speak on item 8. if i may, let me read the names. if there is any other member of the public who would like to speak on any of...
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here you did something which made us look bad. so as a consequence of your bad behavior, maybe more boys had to die. maybe we had to work even harder. but i think it was because of the extreme circumstance of the time and the stakes were incredibly high that you did have a community that looked at these men as if they had, in fact, turned against their own community and had worked against those who had served and died. and that was the case. i know it's still a problem now. i have a friend who is a no no boy and he talks about how, even now, 60-something years later, there are people in the community who won't talk to him because he was a no no boy. but, again, it's through the lens of present day politics, how we've begun to look at the events and studied them that the resistors from heart mountain who were another group who on constitutional grounds contested being -- serving. they refused to serve, as opposed to the no no boys, who signed no no. the resistors actually went to federal prisons. they went to leavenworth. they are
here you did something which made us look bad. so as a consequence of your bad behavior, maybe more boys had to die. maybe we had to work even harder. but i think it was because of the extreme circumstance of the time and the stakes were incredibly high that you did have a community that looked at these men as if they had, in fact, turned against their own community and had worked against those who had served and died. and that was the case. i know it's still a problem now. i have a friend who...
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google, microsoft, that's us. i would say -- >> wait a second, google is a bunch of russian immigrants. >> innovation is our long suit. yes, we were strong manufacturing. but you know what let the other countries have it. let's be the leader 6 innovation. let's be the leaders in new energy what i love about some of the stimulus acions that obama are taking is because it's talking about investing not only infrastructure, next subpoena investing in new energy. something we absolutely have to do. i would like to point out briefly is that we always have the highest happy index of any nation in the world. we report higher levels of general happiness, no wonder we -- >> we're naive. >> we are. no wonder we want -- an toe mystic people. what i love about obama don't underestimate him. he was the one that surprised everyone, came out ahead of hillary, i think he's going to -- >> gofering our -- >> i think this lack of competitiveness, real threat to the new america that secretary clinton talks about is that we no longer b
google, microsoft, that's us. i would say -- >> wait a second, google is a bunch of russian immigrants. >> innovation is our long suit. yes, we were strong manufacturing. but you know what let the other countries have it. let's be the leader 6 innovation. let's be the leaders in new energy what i love about some of the stimulus acions that obama are taking is because it's talking about investing not only infrastructure, next subpoena investing in new energy. something we absolutely...
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where all the sounds so people could use or see with. you is worth every. one. well apparently the pentagon has no trouble with burning books just kidding but they actually have no trouble with destroying them it seems but to be honest hell stephen destroy a book rather than burn it anyway unlike the uproar over the planned burning of qur'an the defense department appears to be going to great lengths to stop the release of a book called operation dark heart now this is written by anthony shaffer a former defense intelligence agency officer and a lieutenant colonel in the army reserve too there's a debate over whether this book reveals too many military secrets now keep in mind the army reviewed and suggested various changes to the book back in january and then signed off on it but when it came time for the book to be released the pentagon for some reason objected now disputes between the government and former intelligence officials over whether their books reveal too much happen often but the pentagon is so worried about this book that they've actually offered t
where all the sounds so people could use or see with. you is worth every. one. well apparently the pentagon has no trouble with burning books just kidding but they actually have no trouble with destroying them it seems but to be honest hell stephen destroy a book rather than burn it anyway unlike the uproar over the planned burning of qur'an the defense department appears to be going to great lengths to stop the release of a book called operation dark heart now this is written by anthony...
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but they are still after us. they still want to do us harm. and they still want to get at as any way they can, in our view. intent is the driving force here behind the terrorist activity and it remains the same. >> i think governor kaine and mr. carlson is absolutely right. we have seen terrorist organizations becoming much more comfortable in their communications. someone in the united states, they can communicate and has theological credentials as a credentials scholars -- and has to lodge a credentials and academic scholars but is from new mexico. the threat is radiated outwards from al qaeda central itself. it used to be that if you wanted to be a terrorist or if you wanted terrorist training, you went to one point, either afghanistan or, more recently, pakistan. one of the problems that is part of al qaeda's strategy to enlist, to encourage, to motivate light-minded jihadi groups to spread their wings has meant that individuals looking to receive terrorist training, unfortunately, today have more destinations to select from to go. they te
but they are still after us. they still want to do us harm. and they still want to get at as any way they can, in our view. intent is the driving force here behind the terrorist activity and it remains the same. >> i think governor kaine and mr. carlson is absolutely right. we have seen terrorist organizations becoming much more comfortable in their communications. someone in the united states, they can communicate and has theological credentials as a credentials scholars -- and has to...
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to keep us safe. and you don't play games with that. so i hardly think we're the ones who elevated this story. but it is, in the age of the internet, something that can cause us profound damage around the world, and so we've got to take it seriously. with respect to health care, what i said during the debate is the same thing i'm saying now and it's the same thing i will say three or four years from now. bending the cost curve on health care is hard to do. we've got hundreds of thousands of providers and doctors and systems and insurers. and what we did was we took every idea out there about how to reduce or at least slow the costs of health care over time. but i said at the time, it wasn't going to happen tomorrow, it wasn't going to happen next year. it took us decades to get into a position where our health care costs were going up 6, 7, 10 percent a year. and so our goal is to slowly bring down those costs. now, we've done so also by making sure that 31 million people who aren't getting health ins
to keep us safe. and you don't play games with that. so i hardly think we're the ones who elevated this story. but it is, in the age of the internet, something that can cause us profound damage around the world, and so we've got to take it seriously. with respect to health care, what i said during the debate is the same thing i'm saying now and it's the same thing i will say three or four years from now. bending the cost curve on health care is hard to do. we've got hundreds of thousands of...
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it's just us. and that is a principle that i think is... is going to be very important for us to... to sustain. and i think tomorrow is an excellent time for us to... to reflect on that. >> holman: the president will deliver remarks at the pentagon tomorrow to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. >> woodruff: coming up, we'll have a post-9/11 conversation about tolerance and intolerance in america. that will be followed by a report on treatment for wounded troops at fort hood, texas; and analysis from shields and brooks. but first, with the other news of the day, here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: there was another development on the koran-burning story today. the imam behind the building of an islamic center in new york city said he s no plans to meet with the florida pastor who has threatened to burn copies of the islamic holy book. but pastor terry jones said he still hoped to meet with imam feisal abdul rauf in new york city this weekend, but was awaiting word from him. yesterday, jones claimed he had a deal with the imam to cancel the koran burn
it's just us. and that is a principle that i think is... is going to be very important for us to... to sustain. and i think tomorrow is an excellent time for us to... to reflect on that. >> holman: the president will deliver remarks at the pentagon tomorrow to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. >> woodruff: coming up, we'll have a post-9/11 conversation about tolerance and intolerance in america. that will be followed by a report on treatment for wounded troops at fort...